| Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Text and / or Icons on Buttons / Toolbar Items |
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Hi Mickael, thanks for your input. I don’t like the idea to mix OS-specific Icons (aka. Emojiis aka. Unicode chars) and “custom” icons. The UI will look bad. Icons in an application have to belong to the same “family”
follow to specific style to log consistent. Just think of mixing today’s flat style monochrome icons with old 3D-styled icons from the windows 95 time. But my question was not if we should use custom or OS-specific icons. It was about should we use icons on buttons or not. Regards, Matthias From: <cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:36 PM Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
They're indeed unicode character, native ones. So the rendering may depend on the target, for example, what I see in GMail isn't the same as what I see in Eclipse IDE. If we're willing to investigate usage of emojis, we probably need to build some SWT example showing the main interesting
emojis and capture screenshot on all OS. But actually, when adopting emojis, it's a benefit to not know nor care how they're rendered: you trust the OS, just like SWT trust the underlying rendering; and the OS brings the updates, the scalability, the accessibility support, the
options and all the stuff to properly deal with those images, way more efficiently than what we've been able to achieve with embedded images. I think that usage of emojis really fit with the "Eclipse IDE integrates well in your OS" mindset. |